Salaam Iran

Fozoul Baashi,

why should he have to choose. After all, this is a virtual Magical Mystery Tour. The 'site'-seeing should have no limits or bounds...

//www.youtube.com/watch?v=I2qLjQbRv3w

Niloufar,

please re-read what I wrote below about that avatar. I don't think you got what I was saying.

humanbeing

It is your bus. I'd like to have the link to Mr. Saadat Nouri's blog if I may please!

let's make a deal

i'll take np along with me when we go off to get drunk on the air outside kirman, and to translate for me when i go to those microbreweries, and you guarantee that when we get to khuzestan we stop in jundishapur. (i know, no guarantees!). in turn i promise not to lecture the guys and gals on the bus about the medical school where the greek professors researched and taught in their exile after the academy was shut down by justinian in late antiquity. no need, there is a wonderful link to this on m. saadat noury's blog. if it were my bus, i'd elect him as our honorable and estimable cicerone and guide of pre-modern cultural sites of iran.

good nite

"No Fear" jan, you have the chance of your lifetime

What do you say? A  IsFozoul-bashi or a WasRosie?  Remember the deal, and think of your aberoo and aakherat, there is a limit to hospitality ;)  Little Tweet sends its  jeek jeek :)

rosie

there are many iranians who support ahmadinejad. and this is iranian.com with 'nothing is sacred'. so ahamdineajad supporters are a part of it. they don't need to be accepted by any political party in order to be a part of this site. that's all i am saying.

Niloufar,

All I said was that No Fear's avatar and those of Sargourd and Ismail make people less open to hearing whatever they have to say. These avatars are seen as very aggressive, No Fear's most of all. I don't expect him to change it, I just think that if they're serious about chipping away at other people's perceptions and ideologies, as opposed to just asserting their own, they would use avatars that weren't perceived of as so aggressive.

The other side of it, tough, is that there are people like Jamshid who just said on your own blog that he respects-which also means trusts--No Fear more than other pro-IRI people (I believe he was including you among them? lol) precisely for this kind of...let's say 'bold' presentation, and so he's more open to him in a way. But I don't know if many people feel that way.

I don't expect No Fear to change his avatar because I suggested it. My underlying contention is that his using it,belies a desire, conscious or unconscious, to assert, rather than to truly exchange ideas. He's no dummy. He knows exactly how that avatar is perceived.

I wouldn't go to a neocon website with an avatar that said Socialist if I truly expected meaningful concessons to be made on both sides to achieve common ground in the debate. And neocons aren't even afraid of Socialists. Many people here are very afraid of Ahmadinejad.

I just wouldn't do that.

Oh, and No Fear, I'm not harping on your avatar now by choice. It's because Niloufar brought it up again. I already told you, I'm just waiting for you to sit next to me in my role as courtesan.

lol

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ps  In thinking about it again, like always there are different facets to the diamond. A different facet is that after a while, one simply does get used to looking at it, doesn't one? And subliminally, that gives a kind of --ordinariness--to it. And hence to its Poster Child. A kind of...normalcy...

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Everybody Loves Somebody ...

You are most welcomed to stay if you think it's safe. Any journey has its own risks. But sometimes those risks make the trip more enjoyable. I bet if there was no Pasdar to search for alcohol then drinking alcohol wouldn't sound as exciting. So the danger of getting caught make it more adrenalin friendly.

Humanbeing offered the same thing earlier and Fozoul Bashi wanted to have Jooje Kabab while Tweety is on board. So we adopted "don't ask don't tell policy" and said if you want to do something that might not acceptable to everyone then we look the other way and you do your business. Just don't get caught and cause the whole bus get incarcerated.

These are very general and loose terms. It would be regrettable while we can find plenty of things on common ground still some (and I don't mean you or having alcohol on board) bring up a few things that can divide us. It's like cost-benefit analysis. We got to see if it worth to do something or not from that point of view.

Iran is a very large country. If some ( and this is just a general term) people think that they own the country they are obviousely wrong. Nobody owns Iran rather Iran owns Iranians.We wouldn't have any identity as Iranian if Iran wasn't there.

Enjoy the trip!

Midwesty, I don't mean

to be morbid but the rate of fatalities on the Iranian roads caused by accidents is one of the highest in the world. And that is not including the alcohol consumption factor, at least not according to the stats coming out of IRI! And, I am not a cop! But, I will bring Alcohol for those who are interested and if stopped and inspected by pasdars we will bribe them! Or, maybe we will offer them a bottle, preferably filled with O2H2NCNH2!?

But by BYOA, I really meant (bring your own aftabeh!) Since one of the passengers had suggested to bring with them Qor'ann, Jaa namaz, and the flag of the Islamic Republic, I figured we would respectfully ask for one to complete the ensemble which happens to come handy in the arid Iranian terrains. :-)

I didn't mean to offend your blog! Just tried to be humorous! If they are amenable I'll get on otherwise Safar Salamt & Khosh!

a bus journey in iran

is one of the funnest things ever. i miss it.

tweet: no you can't! i'll miss your song :)

rosie jan: no fear's avatar to me is a true ahmadinejad fan's kind of avatar. it is the guy with sheer determination pointing in the direction he will be moving in no matter what. no fear has consistently called himself a 'fan' of ahmadinejad. his avatar is quite apt. moreover, it is a picture of the iranian president. how can it be seen as such a major insult to the world? let us reduce the sheer hatred toward him. i know many americans think so, but that does not make it right. btw, he has just made some very major peace overtures toward obama, and will be in usa for the nuclear summit from tomorrow. interesting couple of weeks ahead. back to talking about no fear: correct me if i am wrong, but he just apologised to you. sounded really civil, though with a hint of attitude perhaps if we were looking for one. but we are on a journey, so why look for one?! if you wanna 'get him', then 'gher bedeh' while we all sing and clap as the bus rolls through the mountains! :)

esmail: this part you will love the most, no matter how many times we have to stop for you to pray!

midwesty: now i will definitely need a bodyguard! :) btw, who's getting us wine and araq sagi?! Red Wine kojai? 

Peace

Enjoy everone

Time for a refreshing music.

Everybody Loves Somebody

Yes...I hope you are not a cop to give us a ticket! Are you?

No, you first, Midwesty.

You tell  first what you meant in the last two posts to me and Ben, and then I'll tell you my destination.

You show me yours, I 'll show you mine.

Fozoul Bashi jan,

We were afraid by openning the windows Tweety would be "Gone with the Wind".

Chakereem!

Was Rosie,

I am still waiting to hear what would your destination in Iran be and why is that so we can arrange to pay a visit there. The same way others did. I don't think it's too much to ask from an intelligent women such as you. 

:O)

Is this an Iran Payma?

Is it also BYOA on this bus?

Agha baaz kon oon panjeraro!

No Fear, bro, Let's make a deal.  You can sit with myself and the Little Tweet and Niloufar I am body-guarding from araazel-o-obaash.  You get plenty of good conversation and a sweet chick to stroke :0)  You tell this fouzul, how to make sick bag technology duel use ;)

Midwesty,

Please explain.

And if you do, please don't do it on behalf of what you think everyone else is realizing.

No Was Rosie,

I think what every one is realizing is that how a few bad apples can rotten the whole basket.

Ben,

If you are not happy you can just leave this bus and join Was Rosie. She is on her way out.

Tweety..

this 'bickering' is probably doing more for unity than any single submission I've ever seen here...I suddenly just realized that.

Thank you, Midwesty. Even though I believe you see your role on the bus as.. .God.

Just kidding. :oP

Was Rosie,

I am sorry Was Rosie, I think you are already in charge of campfires. Take it or leave it.

Agha midwesty

Although I enjoy riding on Fozool's shoulder and appreciate your changing the menu so kindly, vassaa torokhoda man mikham piyadeh sham! So much bickering: nobody can hear my jikjik anymore :(

اتو سیر جهنم

I want a skull on two crossing bones in front of the bus and flames coming out from the front of the bus going all the way to the back.

The logo doesn't do justice. You have to combine that name with (true) image I have about the back of a bus literally sliding from one side of the road to the other, going in full speed. This is kind of journey I get from your blog. The destination is not that important. We won't get there!

My destination,Midwesty?

I'm waiting for No Fear whose destination is to sit next to me. He looks really hot in his photo. I should like my role on this bus to be:

courtesan.

But that's the problem, isn't it, No Fear?

When humor is done in bits and bytes? I mean, you and I have NEVER had an exchange, because I tried and you didn't answer me when I told you I was reading all those eight pages of your thread. So how could I not think you were trying to portray me as a bubble brain? I mean, if you look at your joke in that context (or should I say lack of context), could I really have interpreted it any other way? Or for that matter others? But those are rhetorical questions now. It's neither here nor there. Why don't you write a new blog with a position statement about why you support Ahmadinejad? With very clear explanation. 

Oh, yeah, and, No Fear...when you said you 'apologize'...that was a pun, right?

lol

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and p.s., No Fear, I stick by my guns about what I told you in that post on that other thread. You and Sargord and'Baby Ruhollah down there would get a better hearing from a lot of people if your avatars didn't seem so threatening. Have you considered...say....a yellow rose?

No Fear,

Look DK is back with lots of ropes. :O) Do you want to take a seat by Was Rosie?

Was Rosie,

No problem. Just wanted to make sure while DK is gone for his bio-break no one is going to take his seat. So enjoy the ride and tell us what would be your destination.

Dear Rosie,

The purpose of mideasty's blog is purely for entertainment. I had to come down from the roof of this bus to tell you this.

I might have been a bit harsh with some of my comments and if the comment was off, i appologize.

I have found you a logical poster through reading your posts and i am looking forward to engage you in due time about a topic which i find interesting.

Ben jan !?

An excellent idea bro for the name. We might have room for a graffiti designer. I want a skull on two crossing bones in front of the bus and flames coming out from the front of the bus going all the way to the back. It's going to look much cool. We'll keep that theme all way through Europe.

I hope the name wasn't a reference to our beloved country and was just to have a cool name like "Ghost Rider".